My aging brain slows,
a train approaching its stop.
Quick math, rapid logic?
Not going to happen.
But in the slogging
a new kind of speed.
I saw an ad this morning:
Do you know your retirement goals?
Without a second’s thought
I sang—
“Stayin’ Alive.” “Stayin’ Alive.”
While Lynne Schilling has been writing poetry on and off for forty years, she began writing it seriously three years ago at age 75. Her day job was as an academic in an entirely different field. However, her love of words dates back to when she was a toddler. She currently spends her days in Connecticut happily playing with words whenever she can.